1914. 
THE HURAt NEW-YORKER 
661 
inferior Black Walnuts. 
For the past two and in some cases 
three years nearly all Black walnut trees 
in this vicinity have borne a large per¬ 
cent. of worthless nuts. Trees noted have 
been of all ages and in different soils. 
.Some people claim trimming will do it, 
but that does not stand proving, because 
some of mine have never had a limb 
removed. My vigorous trees on heavy 
ground have a great many young shoots 
on the inner limbs. Is it advisable to 
trim these off, and can you suggest any¬ 
thing to improve the nuts? H. H. A. 
Millville, N. J. 
It is quite probable that the cause of | 
“worthless” walnuts referred to is either | 
lack of proper pollination or droughts I 
that have prevented normal development, j 
This tree is native to many parts of ' 
New Jersey, and has no disease preying i 
on it or the nuts, so far as I know, un¬ 
less it be an insect that in some places 
infests the hulls. I have seen their lar¬ 
vae in the hulls of walnuts in Ohio and i 
elsewhere ever since I began to gather 
the nuts for eating but I have not no¬ 
ticed that they had worthless or inferior 
kernels. Pruning off some of the branch¬ 
es would not injure the nuts on those 
remaining. As a rule there is no need 
of pruning walnut trees after they have 
once been headed at the right height and 
kept from making forks that are likely 
to split when the trees get large. I would 
think the sprouts referred to will not 
make objectionable branches but if they 
should show that they will do so any 
such should be removed. Good, deep, 
rich soil is what our native walnut trees 
or any of the foreign kinds need and if 
they do not have it supplied naturally the 
soil should be enriched. A heavy coating 
of old rotten trash is excellent and if 
there is animal manure in it so much 
the better. I have had fine success with 
this treatment for pecan trees. 
II. F,. VAN DEMAN. j 
Quick Tank Filling. 
I have found that about two working 
hours out of every 10 have to be spent ] 
in tank-filling, keeping the team and two 
men idle. To prevent this waste of time 
I have installed a centrifugal pump, 
which throws 75 gallons per minute. The 
water is obtained from a spring and has 
to be raised about 10 feet. We are for¬ 
tunate in having electric power on the 
farm, and have run a wire a short dis¬ 
tance to the spring. One of our neigh¬ 
bors has solved the problem in another 
way. He has elevated a large tank 
which he fills with a gas engine. The 
spray tanks can be filled from this in four 
or five minutes by means of a hose. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. f. w. Cornwall. 
Transplanting Large Cherry Trees. 
Will you advise as to moving several 
sour cherry trees, about 15 years old, 
and five inches in diameter at the base? 
Is there a fair chance of their living if 
carefully handled? E. F. D. 
Billerica, Mass. 
Transplanting trees of this age and 
size is nearly always attended with more 
or less risk, particularly fruit trees, and 
before removing them to new quarters, 
they should have a seasoni’s advance 
preparation for this important and per¬ 
haps critical event. If this is properly 
attended to and the work of removal and 
transplanting carefully done the chances 
of their living will be greatly enhanced. 
This Spring take a spade and dig a nar¬ 
row’ trench all around each tree five or 
six feet in diameter, cutting off all roots 
running in a horizontal direction and 
carefully pruning the bruised and broken 
ends, going deep enough to get all hori¬ 
zontal roots, after which fill the trench 
with soil. This severing of the roots will 
force the tree to make myriads of fibrous 
roots running in every direction through 
the ball of earth about the tree. Next 
Fall or Spring the removal may be made, 
and should be done with as much soil ad¬ 
hering to the roots as it is possible to 
handle. The hole to receive them should 
be dug at least one foot larger in every 
way than the ball of earth attached to 
the tree, and filled in to the proper depth 
with good top soil, and this filling in 
around the roots should be of good rich 
soil. Care must be taken that all cavi¬ 
ties under the tree are filled and the 
earth well firmed around the roots as 
filling in progresses. If these instruc¬ 
tions are carefully followed, the chances 
of success in this work will be greatly 
favored. K. 
an automobile weigh ? 
Suppose that railroads should offer you as an induce¬ 
ment to trust your life in their hands, the argument 
that the weight of their rolling stock had been 
reduced to the lowest notch. 
Suppose in the locomotive, they make the boiler wall 
so thin and so light, that it will barely withstand 
the normal pressure for a limited time. 
Suppose they make the trucks, the wheels, and the 
axles barely strong enough to support the engine 
under the most favorable conditions. 
Suppose they make the connecting rods barely strong 
enough to turn the wheels. 
Then, going back to the cars, suppose they make the 
trucks, the wheels and the axles no stronger than 
just enough to carry them a few thousand miles. 
Suppose they make the frame barely strong enough 
to support the body of the car. 
Suppose they make the body barely strong enough 
to hold together. 
Suppose they reduce the weight of every vital part 
to the lowest point. 
Would you trust your life in the hands of a railroad 
which offered you such inducements? 
Safety demands strength. 
Strength demands material. 
Material means weight. 
If these be true, then:— 
Absence of weight must mean absence of material. 
Absence of material must mean absence of strength. 
Absence of strength must mean absence of safety. 
These things apply, whether you have in mind rail¬ 
roads or automobiles. 
How much is your safety worth? 
Cadillac materials are selected for their adaptability 
and fitness for the functions and duties which 
they must perform. 
The designs of the various parts are adopted only 
after they have proven themselves to embody 
liberal factors of safety. 
The Cadillac car will appeal to you because of its 
strength and its security, rather than upon the 
basis of lightness. 
The Cadillac will appeal to you for its comfort as 
the luxurious Pullman appeals to you in contrast 
with the light-weight flimsy coach. 
The Cadillac will appeal to you for its smoothness 
and steadiness in running, as the majestic liner is 
in contrast with the light weight barque in a 
choppy sea. 
The Cadillac will appeal to you because of its sturdi¬ 
ness and its endurance, rather than upon the basis 
of fragility and impermanence. 
Because of its strength, because of its enduring qual¬ 
ities, the Cadillac is an economical car to own 
and to operate, day-in-and-day-out and year-in- 
and-year-out. 
The Cadillac is economical in fuel. 
Hundreds of 1914 Cadillac users are averaging from 
15 to 18 miles per gallon of gasoline in every-day 
service. 
Special test runs have been made showing more than 
22 miles per gallon, but this cannot be taken as a 
criterion for the average user. 
In the recent test by the Royal Automobile Club of 
Great Britain, which won for the Cadillac the 
Dewar Trophy, the 1914 car averaged 17.17 miles 
per gallon for 1,000 miles over give-and-take roads 
—in spite of frequent stops and starts in testing 
the electrical cranking device. 
It consumed less than one gallon of lubricating oil 
in traveling the 1,000 miles. 
Hundreds of users are averaging more than 5,000 
miles on tires. Some users are reporting from 
6,000 to 8,000 miles and even more. 
We believe that in tires, fuel and oil, the 1914 Cadil¬ 
lac will average more mileage than any car which 
approaches its efficiency. 
Because of its standardization, because of the inter¬ 
changeability of its parts, because of its sturdi¬ 
ness, because of its endurance, the Cadillac has 
been called, 
The Everlasting Car. 
That this appellation is merited, we need but point 
to the 75,000 Cadillacs produced, all of which to 
the best of our knowledge are still doing duty, 
the oldest after eleven years of service—and many 
of them after having passed the 100,000 mile mark. 
How much should an automobile weigh? 
It should weigh enough to enable it successfully to 
perform the duties required of it. 
It should weigh enough to enable it successfully to 
perform those duties day-in-and-day-out and year- 
in-and-year-out, at a minimum outlay for opera¬ 
tion and maintenance,—performance and satisfac¬ 
tion considered,—and with a minimum deprecia¬ 
tion in value after years of service. 
= Five Passenger Car, $1975 = 
Seven Passenger Cor, $2075 Four Passenger Phaeton, $1975 s 
H Roadster, $1975 = 
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